The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-05-07
BRASS FURNITURE.
Designs in Chairs, Bedsteads and Cabine
That Are All the Rage Now.

That Are All the Rage Now.
When the popular taste began some
time ago to lean towards articles made
of brass many persons laughed at what
they called Il spasm and said it could
not last long, but if the trade done in
this line of goods is any thing to go by
the craze is increasing. Popular taste,
in fact, is running riot in this regard.
Fancy woodwork, so popular year or
so ago, is practically out of the market.
Not only is this metal used in the manu-
| facture of bric-a-brac and ornamental
| pieces, but in many of the recently
built dwellings it constitutes much of
| practical and substantial appointments.
For portieres, mantel facings and stair
! castings polished brass has been in use
| for Il long time, but it was not until re-
| Gently that it took the place of softer
! and less expensive materials in the
manufacture of panelings for doors,
sills, baluster rails, balconies and the
like. Its use in the manufacture Of
household articles has knocked good
sized hole in the furniture business. for
a portion of dwelling can to-day be
furnished in brass, from the kitchen
poker up to child's swinging crib. An
! article of this kinda brass bassinet-
covered by a canopy, costs $50. A SIM
pie crib, however, can be bought for
1876. Single brass bedsteads are worth
$48. while those of double size range in
price from $3S to 800. Among the
new designs in beds is q canopy which,
while it extends only over the pillows,
is very handsome piece Of furniture.
The head and foot pieces are made in
variously fashioned patterns, as also
are the supports to the canopy which
can be had in damask, merinO, silk or
satin. In room where q light is con-
tinually burned they are practical and
| useful rs well as ornamental.
Brass cabinets forty and sixty inches
high, with four or five shelves, are also
being made. They cost from $40 up.
The top and stanchions are of highly
polished metal, but the shelves are
made of solid mahogany. Polished brass
dressing-cases, with beveled glass mir
rors, though pretty and elegant, are
very expensive. So also are the brass
chairs. To furnish q reception-room
or parlors with brass chairs would bs
novel and dainty, but at $40 each most
people would have to be content with
one or two. To the designs, patterns
and shapes of the various articles made
of this metal there seems to be no end.
The appearance Of a room is greatly
enhanced by brass easel, as is also
| the looks of the picture to which it
gives support. The number of articles
made of brass runs up into the thou
sands already-and the end is not yet.
Shaving stands, wall pockets, fire.
screens and such things exist in count
less varieties. The most popular con-
ceits are the umbrella stand, usually
made in hammered goods, circular in
form and about II foot in diameter; coal
scuttles, used chiefly by people who
have open fire-places and CRATES, to
stand beside the fireplace; match boxes.
/ whisk broom holders, ash receivers and
/ hall racks in polished oak with brass
mountings. Small Thermometers or
clocks are sometimes set in the head Of
a tennis bracket. The latest card
picture-holder is made of brass in the
semblance of hatiron. 1t is in the
appointing of a house, however, that
the craze Is now mostly seen, and
builders and architects generally are
puzzling their brains trying to find new
places and new uses to which they can
put the metal, and are thus coming
nearer and nearer to what is said will
one day bs house Of brass.-M II
Hzpress.